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ACA Anniversary Coverage: Healthcare After the Supremes Ruled

What a year this has been: the Supreme Court tells the nation that it is within constitutional bounds for the federal government to mandate healthcare coverage for all Americans, but not within the law for it to tell states, effectively, that they must expand Medicaid to provide some of that coverage. Thus, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, moved from flash-in-the-pan to law-of-the-land.

And then we were off to the races -- including the race for the White House between a President who said he was staking his future on that law (although he spent precious little time promoting it) and a Republican champion who pledged to deep six it (but stumbled on his views about the "47% " of Americans who are looking for government handouts).

But the long race, and remember we are just barely out of the gate on ACA, is still to come.

The Supreme Court ruled, but history will ultimately be the best judge of the ACA. Since we are all participants in that history, I want to encourage you read today's coverage, view the videos, and keep telling us how the ACA is playing in your world. We want the horror stories as well as a the triumphs, just keep them coming.

This survey is a poll of those who choose to participate and are, therefore, not valid statistical samples, but rather a snapshot of what your colleagues are thinking.

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